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Adding sounds to the Timeline

Adding sounds to the Timeline

From the course: Sound Design for Motion Graphics

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Adding sounds to the Timeline

- In this movie we'll explore some ways to import and sync up audio clips to our timeline. We'll start with a bit of organization. A little now will pay off big later, so let's make some tracks, and we'll name them and color code them. To make a new track, you can select any track in the timeline and then the new track will appear below it, so I'll click on music to select that track. You can select a track just by clicking on the top, left corner of any track, and then I'll go up to Multitrack, Track, and I add a stereo audio track. There's a good quick key command for this, which is option A for mac, and that would be alt A for Windows machines, and I'm going to add a stereo audio track here because most of the sound effects I will be adding to my timeline are, indeed, stereo files. Although, you might find some sound effects might be monofiles, and you can see here that Audition also allows for 5.1 surround audio tracks, so let's add one stereo audio track, and you can see it…

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